Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi had been ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed for the killings in 2017 of nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social ...

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, a Japanese man known for targeting vulnerable people who expressed suicidal thoughts online has been ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was was executed on Friday, at the Tokyo Detention House in secrecy with nothing disclosed until the execution was done.

Japan hangs 'Twitter killer' in first ... He was dubbed the "Twitter killer" as he contacted victims via ... It followed the execution in July 2022 of a man who went on a stabbing rampage in ...

Japan hangs 'Twitter killer' in first execution since 2022. ... It followed the execution in July 2022 of a man who went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s Akihabara shopping district in 2008.

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